On the 5th of October, 2023, the NZ Asian Lawyers Litigation Committee hosted their first session in the Litigation Masterclass series on pleadings at the Shortland & Fort Centre, sponsored by Tompkins Wake. Expert panellists Brent O’ Callahan and Linda Hui took the audience through a myriad of practical do’s and don’ts, insightful anecdotes, and deep dives on difficult components of drafting…
DetailsWith the support of MAS, on the 5th of October the Young Lawyers’ Committee hosted an networking event at Sweatshop Brew Kitchen in Auckland. This event had a great turnout and it was so nice to get together with like-minded Asian legal professionals and law students to blow off some steam.Pete Lycett from MAS also let everyone know…
DetailsThe NZ Asian Women Lawyer’s Committee held the Practical Tips Panel on 20 September 2023. The panel discussion had three speakers: Anand Ranchod (recruiter), Jo Stevenson (People and Culture Director at Simpson Grierson) and Jo Pidgeon (director of Pidgeon Judd). The event chairperson was Catharina Chung, Senior Associate of Tompkins Wake Lawyers. Thank you to Tompkins Wake for generously sponsoring this event. Our attendees enjoyed…
DetailsOn the evening of 7 September 2023, the NZ Asian Lawyers – Young Lawyers Committee held an informal networking event in our Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington office. The focus of this event was to bring together aspiring young members of the legal profession and build a supportive community and network. With one in nine of the…
DetailsAs always, the very well-attended ILANZ Conference 2023 held in Tauranga on 27 and 28 July provided a range of interesting and relevant speakers including Justice Whata speaking on tikanga issues, Diana Voerman-Tam from RBNZ speaking about lessons learned from a data breach and guest presenters including Dame Susan Devoy and journalist Jehan Casinader providing…
DetailsOn Monday night, NZ Asian Lawyers was wowed by the amazingly challenging, and insightful viewpoint from Dean of Law at Oxford University Professor Mindy Chen-Wishart’s address at Russell McVeagh, on ‘Is there a Bamboo ceiling in the profession, academia and the judiciary?’ The short answer to this question is: it has gotten better, but there is still a bamboo ceiling.…
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